Union

adj 1: being of or having to do with the northern United States and

those loyal to the Union during the Civil War; "Union

soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"

[syn: {Union}, {Federal}]

2: of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations";

"a union-shop clause in the contract" [ant: {nonunion}]

n 1: an organization of employees formed to bargain with the

employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a

job" [syn: {labor union}, {trade union}, {trades union},

{brotherhood}]

2: the United States during the Civil War; "Lee hoped to detach

Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources

turned the scale" [syn: {Union}, {North}]

3: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive

purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the

mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: {coupling},

{mating}, {pairing}, {conjugation}, {sexual union}]

4: the state of being united; "there is strength in union"

[ant: {separation}]

5: state of being husband and wife; "a long and happy

marriage"; "God bless this union" [syn: {marriage}, {matrimony},

{wedlock}]

6: a political unit formed from previously independent people

or organizations; "the Soviet Union"

7: a set containing all and only the members of two or more

given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B" [syn:

{sum}, {join}]

8: the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning

produced an unusual union of the metals"

9: a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two

or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner

corner)

10: making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing

factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his

family for the holidays" [syn: {unification}, {uniting}]